Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Health Care in the Black Community
Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!
Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism. This path-breaking Handbook offers students new ways of understanding the powers and limits of...
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards
Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate—and suggests practical remedies for change.
• Provides readers with an understanding of the realities of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for...
States of Memory
Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies...
Backwater Blues
The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle...
by Loretta Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Plains Indians have long occupied a special place in the American imagination. Both the historical reality of such evocative figures and events as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Sacajewea, and the Battle of Little Bighorn and the lived reality of Native Americans today are often confused and conflated...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history,...
Multiple Minority Identities
Applications for Practice, Research, and Training
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
"[V]ery few texts cover such a broad range of diversity and intersecting identities."--PsycCRITIQUES
This important volume chronicles a shift from the old multicultural paradigm that depicts members of a minority group as being limited to racial and ethnic categories, to a modern...
Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance
Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood and American popular culture, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry...
by Frederick Douglass Alcorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book is a culturally situated study of the experiences and perspective garnered from of a group of post-secondary Black African American, bi-multi-racial male students aged 19-37. The undergirding interest was to see if there was an awareness of the group's manly inclinations, tendencies and...
Being Young in Super-Aging Japan
Formative Events and Cultural Reactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed. This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to social cohesion and population decline. Nobody is...
The Urban Geography of Boxing
Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...
The Cultural Contradictions of Progressive Politics
The Role of Cultural Change and the Global Economy in Local Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Why do some U.S. cities like Seattle and Boston impose social exactions and sustainability targets on private investment while others like Las Vegas and Houston offer property tax and fee remissions to business, tolerate environmentally hazardous activities such as oil drilling, and express skepticism...